Re: [tied] Japanese as a creole language?

From: Harald Hammarstrom
Message: 20346
Date: 2003-03-25

> Clarification. Japanese may or may not be related to the rest of Altaic
> depending one what your criteria on relationship happens to be. However
> regardless, it most certainly has something "to do with the Altaic language
> family" because of transparently Altaic words in Japanese vocabulary.

Which are these?

thanks
Harald